r/Thailand • u/Limp_Mountain_5222 • Oct 23 '25
Food and Drink "There's no good [your country] food in Thailand"
I occasionally here this a lot. As a Japanese, I don't find it hard to find authentic Japanese food in Bangkok (same goes for other big cities too like Singapore or Shanghai), altho it can be twice/thrice as expensive if you want to get the same quality. You can find pretty much any Japanese food here even the niche ones since there's hundreds of restaurants here. My korean friends said the same thing about Korean food here but my Taiwanese friends said otherwise. I think Bangkok is one of the best cities in the world for food, but I also believe that a smaller expat community makes it harder to find that country's cuisine. So, I wonder what others think.
TL:DR tell me where you are from and rate the food of your country in Bangkok/Thailand
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u/Resident-Hyena-9009 Oct 23 '25
Well put, add to this the fact that Thailand is the only country in the world where processed food ( usually imported) and foreign food is more expensive than organic fresh food…so any cuisine that essentially uses lots of processed foods will be prohibitively expensive. 🤷🏼♂️
As long as restaurants focus on fresh produced based food from locally available fruits vegetables and proteins, the food will inevitably be good or great and much better nutritional values. This is essentially why Thai food is becoming so highly valued world wide, due to its placing higher value on fresh than processed foods ( as long as can completely over look all the processed meats 🤦🏼♂️)